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Re:The strange case of Britain’s demise by TapWaterBandit on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:44PM (#34033061)
I'm astounded people are STILL burying their heads in the sand about Corbyn. But I suppose that is a large part of the reason why labour was losing for so long they kept denying the obvious reality that the electorate just did not like Corbyn but wouldn't get rid of him for internal political/ideological reasons.
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Re:The strange case of Britain’s demise by akiselev on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:59PM (#34033154)
There’s only one meme in British politics seen more often than Malcolm Tucker quotes: “It’s Corbyn’s fault!”

It’s febrile at this point.

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Re:The strange case of Britain’s demise by TapWaterBandit on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:53PM (#34033539)
> It’s febrile at this point.

Not really sure what you're saying here. Did you mean to use the word "juvenile"?

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Re:The strange case of Britain’s demise by atchoo on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:10PM (#34034056)
"Febrile" is basically a UK Politics meme after being used by journos to describe the "atmosphere in Westminster" during each crisis of the week.
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Re:The strange case of Britain’s demise by akiselev on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:15PM (#34034086)
It's also a word most people learned thanks to the fictional Malcolm Tucker character in The Thick of It (Season 3, episode 6 when he's yelling at Ben Swain)
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Re:The strange case of Britain’s demise by narcindin on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:33PM (#34034196)
Probably [facile](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/facile), here meaning superficial, reductive, or weak.

Edit: Actually probably what the UK ppl are saying

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Re:The strange case of Britain’s demise by tobylane on Sunday December 18, 2022 @10:42AM (#34038694)
I reject the idea that I'm burying my head in the sand, if that's your reaction to my post. I'm wary of expanding on it on HN. The short version is that there were genuine policy reasons to dislike him (even from a POV left of Blair), overwhelmed by the media and the Labour party disinformation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62226042

Do you know who the article is saying should try harder?

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